Which Asian nation will get Google's Money?

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

You have to wonder how much Google's people get wined and dined when they're looking to build a new datacenter and what really goes on behind closed doors - especially when you have nations competing against each other to ensure that they'll be the ones who finally get the Google dollars:


The Prime Minister of Malaysia has announced that Google (GOOG) is interested in building a data center in Malaysia. The announcement comes just days after the economic minister in Taiwan said Google is "leaning toward" developing a major data center in Taiwan. Various other reports suggest Google has also scouted locations in Japan, South Korea, India and even Vietnam (which just announced its first data center).
Round and round it goes, where it lands, nobody knows. Read more here.